Wednesday was a field trip day to Portland! James and Noah went with Gabe and Nannie to the BodyWorlds exhibit at the Portland Science Center. Gabe and I had seen this exhibit when we were in college at the Museum of Science in Boston and we both remembered it as an amazing "must see" exhibit. The kids have all been learning anatomy for the past several weeks, in preparation. We spent the few days before they visited discussing at length that they are actual human bodies, why they were there, how/why they looked like they did, how this kind of thing is important to learning about the body, etc. I think that the leg work paid off because they both really loved it and couldn't wait to tell me about all of the "cool" things they had seen and "Did you know...?". I truly was afraid that one of them would have terrible nightmare, but so far we are in the clear. Maybe we have brainwashed them to love science, maybe it's genetic, maybe we have marked them for life by never sparing the "real details" when it come to science, but anyway it is, we were proud parents;) Here is the website, just in case anyone would like more info (we would obviously encourage a visit:)): http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
While the older boys were learning some anatomy, Grandpa and I took Ben and Audrey to the Portland Children's Museum. We do love science, but even we knew it wasn't appropriate for the 2 & 4 year olds;) They spent lots of their time playing on the indoor playset, driving the fire engine and "camping" upstairs. It was great to see the new exhibits they have placed within the last 12 months. Both kids loved the new hospital set up complete with the Angel 1 ambulance. The X-ray of the bear who swallowed a truck was a particular hit! Another successful outing to the "big city" in the books:)
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